Theme
Students make a flash animation illustrating distinguishing features of their assigned organelle(s).
Project
Using a variety of electronic resources, research, and storyboard accurate information about your assigned organelle(s), citing your sources. Select one or more distinguishing features to animate. In your animation, at least one micrograph should be included. Include a written summary.
Theme
WHMIS
Project
Electronically produce a web-based short film that demonstrates your understanding of safety in a high school science laboratory. Include in this film safety procedures and close-up shots of school equipment bearing any/all WHMIS symbols, with narrative explanations.
Theme
It takes the addition of significant amounts of energy to defrost a freezer.
Project
Create a digitally designed report including 3-5 zoom(8-10x) photos illustrating the following science phenomena:
Add thermal energy to a water and ice mixture at 0ºC, and record the temperature every 30 seconds until the water is boiling and the temperature has stopped changing.
To complete this task:
Theme
Extend the concepts of sine and cosine for angles from 0 to 180
Project
Create a web-based flash animation illustrating the solution to the following math problem:
Using available technology, calculate and record the values, to four decimal places, of the following trigonometric ratios.
sin 70º
sin 110º
sin 47º
sin 133º
sin 69º
sin 111º
cos 70º
cos 110º
cos 47º
cos 133º
cos 69º
cos 111º
Summarize the patterns found in the trigonometric ratios of supplementary angles. Identify if there is a pattern between the tangent ratios of supplementary angles.
Use the patterns identified above to solve the following equations for 0 < o < 180.
a) sin o = 0.3267
b) sin o = 0.8593
c) cos o = 0.6481
d) cos o = -0.3719
e) tan o = 2.1847
f) tan o = -0.5915
Theme
Present solutions to math problems.
Project
Create an audio/video/animated screencast of the following math problem:
Janet has decided to start an investment account at the local bank and selects a savings account that currently pays 5% per pounded monthly. She initially invests the $500 she received as an income tax rebate. She also plans to add $100 per month to her account. The initial investment is to be made on April 1 of this year. The additional monthly $100 investments are automatically made on the first day of each successive month. The monthly interest is deposited into the account on the last day of each month.
1. Create a spreadsheet, using a predeveloped template, that will illustrate the growth of Janet’s account over a 12-month period—April to March. The spreadsheet must contain the column headings: Month, Opening Balance, Interest Rate, Interest Earned, Additional Investment and Closing Balance. Print a copy of your spreadsheet.
2. Modify and print your spreadsheet to illustrate a change in the interest rate to 4.5% on November 1.
3. Janet received a raise in pay in July. Modify and print the spreadsheet developed in the first assignment to reflect a change in monthly investments from $100 to $150 beginning August 1.
Theme
Project
Study the influence that early cultural experience has on well-known Canadian writers, such as Michael Ondaatje, Timothy Findley, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood. As part of your research, electronically contact, where possible, Canadian writers of varied cultural backgrounds to discuss how their background affects their work.
Use primary sources to conduct online discussions, where possible, or read autobiographies. Use secondary sources, such as biographies or interviews, to gain more information.
Write a script for an audio podcast using the information gathered. If online discussions were possible, include the text of the discussions as an appendix.
Thematic
Project
Using a human rights issue drawn from a Social Studies 10 unit of study, prepare a persuasive short documentary film to sway public opinion to your view. In preparation for your project, identify information you already have, and search out additional information on the topic that will support your view as well as counter arguments against your view. Include electronic sources in your search.
Base your selection of information on the following: